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Women hold other women back in the workplace. It’s called the queen bee syndrome

In 'Letters to Daughters of Tomorrow', Dr Shamoly Khera talks about the importance of cultivating the young women and girls of today into influential and impactful leaders of tomorrow.

Chauri Chaura freedom fighters’ families got a memorial in 1982—getting pension was much harder

In 'In Pursuit of Freedom: Travels Across Patriotic Lands', Pradeep Damodaran documents his travels across important locations in India, following the fault lines of freedom.

Habib Tanvir’s Charandas Chor was led by Dalit actors from Chhattisgarh—and they owned the play

Habib Tanvir and His Legacy in Theatre, edited by Anjum Katyal and Javed Malick, features essays exploring the lasting impact of the thespian's work, which blended tradition with modernity.

How John Edward Sache photographed 19th-century India

In 1865, John Edward Sache began a partnership with photographer WF Westfield to set up a photographic studio named Sache & Westfield at Waterloo Street in Calcutta, which became a member of the Bengal Photographic Society.

Vajpayee had one question after IC 814 crisis—Why wasn’t the plane grounded in Amritsar?

With telling revelations, memoir, and account of history, Ajay Bisaria's Anger Management is a study of the diplomatic engagement between India and Pakistan.

Shirdi’s Sai Baba practised wrestling. Then he lost a match and gave it up forever

In 'Shirdi Sai Baba', Chandra Bhanu Satpathy explores the fusion of Sufi and Bhakti traditions in Sai Baba's teachings.

Harappa’s 5 mega-urban sites were located on a grid, at calculated distances

In 'Discovering India Anew: Out of Africa to its Early History', Alan Machado (Prabhu) reconstructs the history of Indian peoples from its point of origin in Africa.

IC 814 was first India-Taliban contact. So New Delhi sent a young officer to test the waters

In 'An Indian Woman in Islamabad', Ruchi Ghanashyam narrates her experience in Pakistan during the IC 814 hijack.

Bengali bhadralok culture in Tripura — Tribal women wore saris to look ‘respectable’

In 'But I Am One of You', edited by Samrat Choudhury and Preeti Gill, Jamatia recalls Tripura of the 1980s—when tribal women started covering up in urban spaces.

Wokes are destroying beauty of language. Being blunt is better than inoffensive

In 'A Wonderland of Words' Shashi Tharoor demystifies punctuation, guides us through the arcane rules of spelling and grammar, and explains a wide array of essential components of the language.

On Camera

China benefits from US involvement in Ukraine & Gaza. India must tread carefully

In the context of the ongoing geopolitical contestation between the West and China, keeping the US engaged in Ukraine and Gaza will only benefit Beijing in the long run.

Five debt defaults, two NPAs & 100% value erosion. MTNL barrels towards a major financial crisis

Since 2019, govt has pumped Rs 3.22 lakh crore into MTNL & BSNL. Both remain in losses. MTNL has begun to default on loans & bond payments, possibly the first large PSU to become NPA.

Did Captain & fiancée ‘attack’ cops or were they ‘manhandled’? Army to take up case with Odisha authorities

While police are quoted as saying that officer & fiancée created fracas & injured four police personnel, Army’s situational reports and his statement present a different picture.

BJP’s Northeast policy has lit new fires & reopened old wounds. And it still won’t blink

Manipur represents BJP’s unique ideological approach to governing Northeast by playing identity politics jiu-jitsu. It hasn’t gone well yet, is getting worse, but the party insists on continuing.